The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Court forces US to grant visa to Ramadan

A judge has forced the US to grant Tariq Ramadan -- who was barred from entering the US last year -- a visa after the ACLU and others brought a lawsuit. Whether you like Ramadan and his crypto-Islamist beliefs or not, this is a good thing on principle, for as the judge in the case explained:

while the Executive may exclude an alien for almost any reason, it cannot do so solely because the Executive disagrees with the content of the alien’s speech and therefore wants to prevent the alien from sharing this speech with a willing American audience.